Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-07-09
A CHINESE DOCTOR.
s PRESCRIPTION FROM A PIcTUa-
 eSoUE CELESTIAL PHYSICIAN.

esoUE CELESTIAL PHYSICIAN.
 Studying the Bestings of Both Pulse.
 Medicine to De Made Up and Taken
 by the whoIesaIe--A Terrible Struggle.
 Benefits.
 Here I was, face to face with the Chine- doctor, whose advertisements were printed in English, but who sadly complicated things by talking the Chinee. told him that hadn't learned Chinee yet. His mouth widened into grin, and he motioned me to a wcoden-bOt toned chair.
 ~Chin Too oomee light wale,- he said
 Chin Foo was tho interpreter. He came back in ten minutes as happy and dapper a looking Chinaman as ever trottsd through Mott street. Until he came l amused myself critically ogling this physician from tn, ! Flowery Kingdom. He was decidedly pictur eSque. His tall figure was enveloped ia long. loose robe of yellow fgurcd Chimes. silk, like tho magician's garb in juvenile fairy tales All but the extrcme top of his b>nd was shaven smooth as q billiard ban from the crown depended queue of raven | hsir, almost as long as the man was tall and braided like a German maiden's locks. From ] n ends were of extraordinary length But SUI prising ns the mustache looked 1t wasn't half as strange as his left hand He had let the nails grow until they were fully an inch in lepgth. They were polished till they glistensd. The nails of his other hand were pared close to the finger tips. He leisIrely pulled cigarette of very strong black tobacco aS he sat oppo- site me against the background of brilliant | curtains
 -sSce here, Foo said Eve got malaria I've had it long time-a good deal longer tha2 l want it. I'm toll your doctor makcs speciality of knocking out malaria in 6 single ronndr
 That's right rejolned Foo, with grin @let the dOcter feel your pulse
 Foo jabbered to his fantastic principal in Chinese, and he'd out my hand to him Thf long-nailed Celestial took one of my wrists iL. either hand, pressed his fingers against the puls, and studied the floor with bowed head in silence SO long that looked quizzinglY up at Chin Foo and requested an explanation.
 @Whats the matter with your doctor, Fooi- I slid. ~Does the case stagger hirni And what in thunder dOes he want to feel both my pnles fori7
 -Oh. that's the regular professional method tn China the dapper littlc interpreter re- tuTnCd, smiling at my mystifcation- Hes Crth-'dox as orthodoxy in China can make hin- It's peculiarity of physicians in tho Fiowery Kingdom tO study the beat of both pdlss.H
 Tho pis-tailed Celestial medicine man looked up from the floor and let go both my wr.sts as lively Chin Foo got to the end of his re- marks- Then he reached for pencil and eDs Of the great sheets of yellow paper that were piled high on a rcd table in front of him
 He is going to build you prescription now, Chin Foo said admiringly. ~Watcb him; it'll interest you"
 The prescription was a cOrker In size. The medicine man began at the upper right hand corner of the big yellow sheet with a jerky snrt of scribble that built up curiously Chinese characters in columns of three so fast that l could scarcely follow him with my eye. He built other columns under the first one until, after he had been at work something less than five minutes, the Chinese characters were piled up on top of each other in huge rows like the Navarro flats.
 That's all" cried Foo, as, with a sigh of relief. I saw the medicine man from Canton G-op his pencil and shove over the yellow rsvsyriPtion- ~You can get this put Up down in MO;s street, and nowhere else. The doctors fee is g. please"
 " it up into a tea, and take half cupful at dose three times a day. Half Q teacup s rather small dose, too, for you must re- member that the Chinese take their medi- cine by tho wholesale when they take any at all Their medicines are all allopathic to a heroic extent 50 far as the consumption Of remedies is concerned.-
 An hour later l found the Chinese phar- macy of Hong Wah, Hee King & Co, the solitary Chinese drug store of Gotham It was on the ground floor of three-stOTy building on the south side of Mott strec., that looked very much like little German grocery decked with no placards- The clerk laid his mammoth pipe carefully aside, with the punk still sticking in the hole in tine side, glanced at the prescription, and then started to make 1t up. He GTew handful of what assembled cinnamon sticks from one drawer, and laid them in Q big metal scoop. This scoop was fastened on one end of a wooden rod that the clerk hild poised in the air by string He hung a number of dangling weights on the other end of this astonishing pharmaceutical scnle, until, after tedious delay, he finally struck balance. Then be dropped the whole thing on the counter, | and grabbed something else from another 1 drawer. This he weighed in the same tiresoms | fashion
 There were fifteen or sixteen different and | desperate looking drugs or herbs in that bis l yellow prescription, and when that moon | eyed Mongolian had weighed them all out separately he bundled them all together | again in red paper in a package bigger than my head, and an assistant who sat in far of | corner walked over to him, listened to him ! jabJer something in Chinese and said in very l fair EnrliSh. Dollar and half
 gave him the money, tucked the heroic | dose under my arm and rode home.
 When get there dumped the whole pile | of medicine, sticks and powders and roots, | into kettle of hot water and boiled them for | an hour until they became tea, as Foo had | directed It was most villainous and unin- viting decoctiOn when ] lifted the Id at the | expiration of the hour and poured out half | cupful Long wrestling with tiss multtudin- | ous aches anl pains and ills of life had made | me familiar with a varied and terrible series l of unsavory medical drinks, but never in my | life had introduced into my poor stomach | anything so horrible to the taste as the tea | that came of boiling theSe Chinese drugs end | herbs. By mighty effort forced the dose | down my throat, Gnd kept 1t there by heroic | and masterful struggle of the Will The | nightmare that made my broken slurnbers welfu an1 awful was SuL uihc CoHFAOu with the internal commOtiOn that racied my system that night when was no; wrestling with variesatel tlrrors Of the nightmare, and in the morning my liver felt as If John l. Sullivan had been using it all night Gs a sand bag. Ny spirits were dismal as a November foc-. and I felt as if Co offer me food were to heap insult upon my misery.
 Dut a wholly unlocked for rise in my spirits folloyvel the tremendous shaking up of my liver. The tea produced Q healthy stimula- ton Of the torpid organ that made me feel happy and Tcgeneratcd for whole week Anl each time thereafter that made myself temporarily sossics by swallowing the awfrl .u.5 the reaction WIS similarly grateful and nvigo-...ing. New York Sun
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